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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1804 to 1870

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1804 AD to 1870 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TQ 6769 SW GILLINGHAM PASLEY ROAD
(West side), Brompton
3134 Officers'block & attached
front basement railings,
Brompton Barracks
GV II*
Formerly known as: Officers'range, New Royal Artillery Barrack, Chatham Lines PASLEY POAD.
Artillery, later Engineers' barracks, officers' block. 1804-6, by James Wyatt, Surveyor of the Office of Works, and Lt.-Col P, D'Arcy RE, for the Board of Ordnance. Brick with limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof, hipped to the pavilions. PLAN: axial plan of back-to-back barrack rooms with transverse stairs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and basement; 1:5:1:6:5:6:1:5:1-bay range. A symmetrical front has originally matching 14-bay ranges with cornice and parapet, connected by a central ashlar distyle in antis 3-bay section with giant Tuscan columns to an entablature and balustrade, and recessed rusticated wall with round-arched ground-floor openings, a central open archway and flanking windows, and flat-headed first-floor windows, to 6/6-pane sashes.
Listing NGR: TQ7622469144

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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